Hey, everyone. My long-time readers know that I’ve recently been trying to pass along job-related resources as I come across them. I’ve come across a new one that was developed my a good friend of mine that I’ve mentioned on this site before, Jullien Gordon. Jullien is one of my peoples from my time at Stanford GSB and, since earning his MBA in 2007, he has created several projects geared toward leading people to finding their life purposes and using
I remember waaaaaaay back in the early 2000′s when the MBA degree was the thing to have. The MBA was supposed to be the ticket to a fantastic job in Finance/Consulting/Management that would be the first step on the road to eternal success in business, lots of money, and a network that most people would kill for. Getting into a top-20 business school was basically like winning one of Willy Wonka‘s golden tickets and being invited to play in his Chocolate Factory, which, in the case of the MBA, was supposed to be the Board rooms of… Read the rest
Back on July 5th, I told all of you about a free webinar that was being held on July 8th by TheArtOfApplying.com, my friend Kaneisha Grayson’s new B-school coaching company. The webinar was entitled “B-school Despite the Odds” and, in it, Kaneisha gave an overview of her own background and what most people would say were shortcomings in her application followed by some general tips that she’s used to help some of her clients over the years. I was really impressed with how open she was about her own MBA application journey and her willingness to put it… Read the rest
When a friend of mine posted the article below on Facebook, I was about to ignore it, but the title caught my eye and I’m glad that I took the time to read it. As my longtime readers know, networking is sort of my “thing” and I spend a lot of time building and cultivating personal and professional relationships…because one never knows when a relationship can yield benefits. This article dovetails very well with the idea of networking as an
In the past few months, I’ve posted several articles about the iffy job market and, at times like these, we all owe it to ourselves to be as thoughtful as possible about managing our careers. I’ve built my career the hard way by making a lot of mistakes and learning from them to improve, but, looking back, it really wouldn’t have been so challenging if I’d had someone to coach me (which is one of the reasons that I’m so
Hey, folk. I hope you all had a relaxing 4th of July weekend and are ready to head back into the office tomorrow. I made it back to Chicago earlier today after a long day of traveling and I have a feeling that I’ll struggle to stay awake at work tomorrow. Gotta love that first day back in the office after a three day weekend, right? I actually didn’t post this entry to talk about the end
Hey, everyone. I hope all of you in the U.S. are enjoying the 4th of July weekend. As for me, I’m in the middle of a relaxing trip to the great state of VA to visit my family and it’s nice to be back here after several months of being away. Also, it’s been nice to sit around my mom’s house and just crash for the weekend after having spent the previous few days in the U.K. at some meetings
The article linked below comes to us from the folks at Veritas Prep and is written by one of their senior MBA admissions consultants, Darren Kowitt. In the article, Kowitt describes his view on what makes a responsible manager and then takes that further to provide some advice for people applying to business school. I found this quote from the article to be especially insightful: “Managers must remember that they are the custodians
Remember when I mentioned my encounter with my friends Jullien Gordon and Jeremy Wilson last Sunday? Well, I wanted to post the article below from Jullien’s site right after that, but was delayed because of the “access issues” that I mentioned in my last entry. Now, I’ve finally got things stabilized enough on my end and can share this article with all of you. Trust me when I say that it is a good one. Jullien posted this article
What’s going on, folk. I’m doing something a little different in this entry and am using it to explore a topic that I don’t touch very often on here…politics. I won’t be the one analyzing the topic though…I’ll leave that to a special invited guest. The article below was written by a guest writer named Alvina Lopez, who approached me a few days ago about contributing an entry to the site. Her own website is focused on online education, but
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